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Clint Smith is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion, a Cave Canem Fellow, and his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Guardian, and Boston Review. His TED Talks, The Danger of Silence & How to Raise a Black Son in America have been collectively viewed more than 5 million times. Here he performs the titular poem from his book "Counting Descent": amazon.com/Counting-Descent-Clint-Smith/dp/1938912659
Clint Smith is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion, a Cave Canem Fellow, and his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Guardian, and Boston Review. His TED Talks, The Danger of Silence & How to Raise a Black Son in America have been collectively viewed more than 5 million times. Here he performs the titular poem from his book "Counting Descent": amazon.com/Counting-Descent-Clint-Smith/dp/1938912659
